2) Paraphrase it, and write your own. Usually a 40 pages document full of shit is enough. Do not forget to fill it with affiliate links in case of some fool would actually follow the outdated/crappy advices you put in it

3) Make an annoying website that tells one is gonna make 1 million within next month if one downloads your ebook for a nice price (your price must end with a 7, why ? Because years ago someone did some study somewhere that says that if you end your price with the number 7, you’re gonna sell your shit much more. And, funny thing, everyone still believes it). So let’s say $47.77

Of course don’t forget to put intrusive javascript of a fake sale agent on your website so the poor guy is annoyed until he agrees to buy your crap.

4) And because you’re cheap, don’t buy google adwords. Instead, search for a list of marketing blogs that talks about making money (there is a gazillion of such blogs – mine included). Then spam blindly each owner and say you loved their blog (that you actually didn’t even look at), and you’re looking for a great business partner, and the guy seems to be the one. But he’s got to hurry otherwise you’ll have to find another partner. The deal is simple. He writes a post on his website telling how great your ebook is and that everyone who wants to make money should buy it, and by the way his readers can have a great deal… $37,77 instead of $47.77, but only for the first 500 (even if the poor guy has only 30 readers).
What does he get in exchange? 50% of any sale of your ebook made through his website.

Don’t laugh, all this sounds terribly lame, but it actually works, at the cost of clueless/naive people who are desperate to make money.

I’ll repeat it over and over, because I want people to avoid such trap : There is a ton of money on the internet, plenty of opportunities, you can literally make money out of thin air. but THERE IS NO SHORTCUT. Only CONSISTENCY will bring you the money. You don’t know where to start? Look at my beginners project to make money through newsletter and start TODAY. And don’t give up.

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So here we go for that little project I’ve been playing with.
The good part – It doesn’t require any investment, and you can start making money within a few days, if not today.
The bad part – It’s kinda weird. I’m telling you, even if I had reasonable success with it, I don’t think I will go on doing it. It can be fun on the begin, but it gets old very fast.

And a warning : It is again an adult project, so if you were shocked by my adult blogs project, don’t EVEN read the following.

So what is the idea? Again, like everything about sex on the internet, that’s quite simple : Taking advantages of the poor horny guys who are trying to meet girls on the web.

You might already know that the dating industry is big, and companies are fighting to get their share. Especially since social websites (e.g. myspace) have appeared, where it is easy to meet people (at least virtually).

So for this, you can target either dating sites or social websites.

The idea here is to pretend to be a sexy girl, and trick pervs into subscribing to affiliate adult websites. There are a bunch of adult websites that will pay you up to $75 for every people who subscribe to them, through your affiliate link. And there are many desperate guys, who don’t care to pay. Your job is to make both meet.

To find people, I went to a dating website, and created a fake profile, uploaded a few pictures of a hot girl, pretending to be searching for a casual relationship with older guys.
Another way was to make a fake profile on a social website, and start sending friends invitations to get people to see my profile.
What would be better?
- Being on a dating site, you are sure that many guys will contact you, the only problem is that they are looking to date a girl, not registering to another website, so the task is gonna be a bit more difficult.
- Being on a social site, you can buy a bot that automatically send invitations to get friends. But you can be sure that with a bot, many other people will do the same and it will be more difficult to get responses. The other solution is to attack a social website that is less known (avoid myspace, facebook, tagged…). But of course it is going to be some stupid work to add new friends.
On the whole, you must remember that you’ll have to contact a large number of people before getting results. Don’t expect to contact 50 people and earn $1000. You’ll need more than that.
This is why I would advise the dating site, you can be sure to get 100′s of men trying to contact you if you put the right pics (Think student girl – hot but believable, avoid model pics – mix hot pictures with more casual pictures. Hint: I love webshots.com to find plenty of pictures).
You could even create several profiles, why not? But don’t start too big.

I registered to one dating website which I believe is not very popular, but has a good number of profiles – very good, enough users to work on, but no competition. To find it, I just did a google search, and read opinions about it to know if there was some activity. Compete.com is also a good indicator to check a site popularity.

I forgot to tell you, you need to register to one of those adult websites, as an affiliate. Before registering, be careful and read the TOS, because you’re gonna market the adult site through online chat – This is often referred as Instant Messenger Marketing – and many sites don’t allow that.
I used Camkingscash they allow such marketing method, and actually even give you a full training ebook, their ebook is a good read, just don’t go to the websites they list to find customers, because as you can imagine, other people have already done it there, and opportunities are scarse. I switched to Dating Gold. Better find yourself some websites with no competition (easy, just use google).

Once you get your affiliate link, note it, and start to prepare yourself. In the webcams programs, you can select a model to promote. Choose one whose face is not visible, and get on webshots some pictures of a girl who could be the model. You should actually do that BEFORE creating your fake profile on the dating site.

Register on AIM or MSN, that’s what you will use to chat with the guys later. Be sure to get a good IM software, I like to use Gaim, because with it, you can chat with several identities simultaneously.

So far, not so much work, but already time to chill, wait a few hours, before the next step.

Then, look on the dating site if you already got some messages of guys who are interested in you, otherwise start to send messages to random men such as:
“Hi sweetie, my name is xxx! I have seen your profile and maybe we can chat, my AIM address is xxx otherwise I have a MSN address : xxxx”
If you got some people contacting you, reply with the same kind of message. Don’t waste time, don’t try to be nice, just give them your IM address.

Later, fire up your IM, and wait for people to chat with you. When I did that, on the begin I was disappointed, because I had no one contacting me, so during that time, I was contacting random people on the dating site, sending them my IM address. And eventually my contacts added up. So keep on getting new contacts, it is very important.

Then what’s going to happen when you talk to the guy ?
As for my story, I was presenting myself as a wild student, who is trying to pay her bills by doing some cam show.
The key is to go to the point. My mistake at first was to try to be friendly with the guys, but that was not working. Be aware, the guys who are willing to pay for cam shows are people who are there to have sex, even if it is virtual.
It’s gonna be your role : Being a whore. And that’s the disturbing part of the job, you’ll have to talk dirty with guys, pretending to be a girl.
So, when you start to chat, be direct, start by asking their age and sex.
Then you be straightforward. What worked for me was to say things like “oh I’m happy to chat with you, I liked your profile, and I am a bit nervous because I am going to start my shift at work”
the guy of course always asks me what is my job… Be funny and wild! “I am flipping burgers, totally naked, in front of a webcam” Guys always crack up to this… So I add “Ok, I am not flipping burgers, but the rest is true…“.
Your strategy is to get the guy horny… because when all the blood will be down his pants, he won’t think logically and he’ll register to your affiliate link. So, open the dating site during your chat session, so you can look at his profile and give him compliments, and be provocative and dirty. THINK ABOUT PORN MOVIE LINES!!!!
Don’t waste more than 10 minutes on a guy, at the end of the conversation tell him to register, give him your aff link, it’s usually free/ultra cheap ($1). Explain him that this way you and him can finish your stuff, otherwise you’ll have to chat with another guy eventhough you would prefer to finish with him. Remind him that you are a student who needs to pay the bills, and if he doesn’t want to register… just cut the conversation and block him on your IM so you don’t need to chat again with him.
Anyway, every time after a conversation, block the guy, you don’t want to talk with him anymore, you want to talk with new guys who can brings you more cash!

So you get the idea. Get many contacts on your IM, chat with them, be dirty and explicit quickly. Get him horny, drop your aff link, and promise you’ll finish him during the webcam session. After 10 minutes, cut the chat and block him, whether it worked or not.
Chat with several guys at the same time, with multiples IM accounts… Repeat, repeat repeat.
You can do that an hour or two every day and quickly get some easy money.

Some stats on my experiment : one profile got me around 60 messages per day, and turned into 30-35 AIM adds. When connecting 2 or 3h in the evening (US hours), I could chat with 10-25 guys. Was doing my story, sending them hot pictures as well, and made from $40 up to $120, depending on the day.

The last questions :
- Is it profitable? Yes, you don’t invest any money, and potentially, you could make around $50-$100 per hour.
- Is it for you? Depends on yourself, if you feel comfortable with it. People there want SEX, you need to be dirty, that’s the only “skill” required.
- What’s the catch? The difficulty lies in your ability to find places where people are not already over-spammed. Don’t forget, Google can help you for that.
- Why don’t you like doing it? Because apart of the schizophrenic aspect of having to pretend to be a girl and have online sex discussions with unknown perverts, I found that this job was terribly repetitive and not very intellectually challenging. Besides, you can’t really automate it a lot, and if you read my other posts, you already know that automation is a must in my projects.

The final line… If you need a bit of money and are bored during a weekend, get a couple of movies, put yourself in front of the TV with your computer, and do this project as the same time. It’s always better to make a few hundred bucks than lazying around for nothing.

PS: If you try this, please use my aff link to register at DatingGold Thanks and good luck!

Tags: make money from home, make money easy, seo tool, internet business, fast money, get paid, search engine marketing

“I don’t use pay-per-install anymore, they are just spyware so, morality put aside, they are worthless because they eventually get detected by antiviruses… Which means that you could get blacklisted but even if you’re not, most people will have a warning from their antivirus when they try to install your screensavers… I had that and it really “killed” the site where I had all the screensavers with spywares… Even after I re-created all the screensavers to remove the PPI and still today the downloads numbers are low…
Installing it at reboot is worthless as well, I tried it, but my antivirus could even detect there was the PPI INSIDE my screensaver setup exe!!! So even when I clicked on my website to download the screensaver, I had a big “warning” from my antivirus and could not even download it… Someone told me that changing the signature of the PPI exe could make it invisible to antiviruses… I didn’t try it because at this point, I didn’t want to lose time with PPI anymore…
Monetizations options are pretty summed up in my blog… Changing the homepage, Open a page full of ads at the end of the screensaver’s install, using the pop-up generator to have ads on the user homepage. These are what is working best for me.”

“The calculation is easy… XXXXXXXX (PPI program, sorry for hiding the name) is just a program that display popups… With a good CPM sponsor, you can make around $4 per 1000 pageviews, which is $0.004 per pageview. After 25 pagesviews, you earn $0.10, which is what they pay you on average to have their exe installed. Remember that $0.45 is paid only for US traffic, the rest is paid less if nothing.
I bet they manage to open their 25 popups within the first half hour of use… It took me several hours to figure how to get rid of their spyware, and believe me I’m not the average windows user.
I would advise you to use my popup generator code (given in my post Shameless path to the dark side of money), install it during the screensaver setup.”
By the way, if you do this technique, please use my aff link when you subscribe to it: advertising365
“Well if you hesitate about which monetization strategy to choose, just do like me… get 2 websites!
You can then try to experiment different strategies on each website, and if one gets flagged, you will not lose everything, just repack the screensavers, put it on your non-flagged website, and you can even reopen a new second website to experiment another strategy!”

“On the “thank you” page I created, I went really blackhat: I put the CPM sponsor so I am sure to get some money, I did a horrible design (like flashy green and pink), except for the adsense box which has normal colors. The idea is to push the user to click on adsense because the page is too ugly and he wants to navigate away from it. Believe me this works good. On this page I put some text related to screensavers and a high paying keywords so adsense displays high paying ads (you can find a list of high paying keywords by a simple google search)
Finally I put a Adultfriendfinder ad on the page and it brings me a bit of extra cash.”

“DO put in your installer the option for the user to set or not the toolbar/ie start page. I know it is mandatory by the law. You could get in trouble if you don’t do it. But do like me, in your installer, get all installation options on one page. And put the toolbar/other options folded and ticked. Give them a generic name ( e.g. “install google page”)
99% of users will just click on “next” and not read what are all the options.”

“Regarding success, yes I have some, but it took me a lot of time, definitely this is not a project you want to do without automation, the good thing is that I did my first screensaver last year and it still brings me some money… So for now, when I look at the time I spent, I think it is not so profitable. But I would say that if it holds another extra year, then yes it was worth the time spent.

Reaching $100 a day with this project is very hard, if you intend to put the effort to reach that figure, there are more profitable project you can spend your time on.

But if you’re just looking for an extra $1000 a month, that’s doable.”

Tags: monetization, make money, grayhat, SEO, online marketing, blackhat

If yo ugot a login, you can access the resources section by clicking here.

Sorry, this project is closed to new subscriptions. But you can send an email to : adultproject [at] ideasbeta.com

In case new open slots are available. I will remove inactive members there so you can only send me an email to show your interest.

If you want to discuss about it, you can leave comments in this thread.

Before trying to get links back to your website or blog, adding content regularly is one the keys to make it successful, no doubt.

The problem is that good content takes time to write.

So here is a shortcut: Using content templates.
Just as you can use a design template to create the look of your website, you can use a content template to create the content.
Even better, you can reuse a good content template to create content for another one of your blogs/websites.

So it is in your interest to create a collection of content templates. There are a lot of application.

Let’s say you have a totally whitehat blog.
You can use a different template every week to quickly write a post. More content, good! And you still write the rest of your website manually.
You take another template and you write an article from it, with your link in it of course, then submit it to a couple of articles directories. It’s a couple of hundreds free links back to your website in a few months!
You could even go further, take a couple of templates, write a nice report from them, transform it in PDF. Good, that’s a report you can give for free on your website in exchange of a contact email, or even sell it for $0.01 on ebay, and make a bit of extra advertising to your website.

Let’s say now you have a blackhat website.
You could automatise the process of using templates. Create unique and non-spammy content out of it.
There are even other possibilities, just use your imagination.

But, hey what is what you call “content template”?
You can get here an example I wrote : Content template example.
It’s the format I use, but of course there is no rule. The point is to have a text file from which you can QUICKLY, create a UNIQUE article, with a good dose of KEYWORDS in it.
As you see in my example, the template contains a bunch of sentences such as the following:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

When a list of words is between {}, it means one of them has to be chosen. And when there is [keyword], it must be replaced by one term from your list of keywords.
Of course, you’ll have to make a keyword research before you use the template. So if you want to write an article about “cheap insurance”, let’s say you have keywords surch as : “cheap insurance”, “low cost insurance”, “cheap insurance rates” etc.

The above sentence would be transformed from:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

into:

Have you already tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

So you can imagine it is very easy to generate one full article in a couple of minutes from one template.

But then, you are probably already thinking “Cool, but the hard work is to create templates!”.
Not at all, it is quite easy to create a template if you follow the same procedure as me.

First you need to write an article. Yep sorry, you have to write at least once. It is tiring, you may not like it, but think of it as an invesment. Spending half an hour writing an article will give you the possibility of generating dozains of unique articles out of it.

Just take one subject, ok let’s say again “cheap insurance”, and let’s do a little calculation. We want a 5% of keyword density into the article. So for 400 words, you’re going to put your keyword 20 times in the article. (Remember that keyword density calculation changes according to search engines, so that’s a rough guess. You might want to check it later with one of the various tools that exist online).

I’ll give one article I wrote as an example using this keyword: click here.

If it is too difficult to write an article for a specific keyword, you can try to write a generic post talking about something unknown. Take “XXXXX”, and try to write some sentences like this:
“You’ve just got some problem about XXXXX. Or perhaps you want to change and check if there are other XXXXX possibilities?
Maybe you just want to have a look at XXXXX, nothing more. No matter what your desire is, you will find you can be overwhelmed with the variety of choices! Snap out of it, XXXXX can be easy to find if you look at the right place, the one I am going to tell you.”

When your article is written, the fun starts. Open first a thesaurus, there is this one I like http://thesaurus.reference.com/, but you can choose your own, there are many available.
The process is to start taking every word in your article and search synonyms for them. This way you can rewrite your article piece by piece.

E.g., for the sentence:

Have you already tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

it becomes first:

Have you {ever|already} tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

then:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

then:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

etc. until:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about cheap insurance rates ?

And finally the article will look like this.

You’re almost done. Now, check your keyword density if you want, and finally replace your keyword by a general tag (e.g. [keyword]).

The final content will be like this:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime|for good|month after month} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

Here is the final result to download.

So that’s it, you can create a bunch of templates really quickly, and you’ll be able to reuse those templates for many occasions.

And I even wrote the script to put this into practice:

http://www.ideasbeta.com/articles/

Have fun!

I have started to write a new post to describe another money-generating project I worked on during the last months, and because it starts to give me good results, I wanted to share my experiment with you. It turns out that it is quite a long post because I am detailing it throughly so you can’t fail if you follow the instructions… And again I am going to share some of my script I am using for this project… I am currently “cleaning” the scripts so you can reuse them easily.

This project idea came from a friend who has been doing it over a year and he makes now around $5k a month, except he did everything the classical/manual/white way and he was quite surprised to discover that I could do things much more efficiently with a bit of automation, some out-of-the-box thinking, and some “gray” strategies. I can tell you that now he is doing the way I explained him

So stay tuned, do not forget to subscribe to the RSS feed, so you don’t miss the post.

Just know this project doesn’t require any coding skill (as I will provide the necessary scripts), and it is working quite well because thanks to the gray/black thinking, you would have a big advantage upon people trying to do the same. But it is not for everyone as it is related to the “adult industry” and if you are allergic to the “adult” business, you will not like this project!

I realised that setting the homepage to your own google search engine was currently one of the most effective way to bring a bit of cash. But then I saw that eventually, almost every user would remove this default homepage. My overall number of installed homepages is increasing, but very slowly. The daily number of new people having their homepage set is just a bit above the number of people removing it. So I thought, if 95% of the people were going to remove my homepage from their browser, I’d rather try a quick and agressive cash method on them.

So the plan was to display some popups to the user, with some affiliates links on them.
You already know how to earn money as an affiliate, so I suggest you go and subscribe to universally appealing affiliates programs (Lose weight, remove spywares, make money at home, get cheap electronics, etc.). Then you will make your own popup generator that will display say 1 popup every 20 minutes. You don’t want to get too intrusive there.

How will you launch your popup generator? From your search homepage! Everytime the user will open his browser, your homepage will execute this popup generator. Then the popup generator will display ads until the user closes his browser.
So how are you going to create a popup generator? You’re lucky, I will give you the code of mine. I did it in php and javascript, it is crappy as hell, but damn easy to understand and use. What I want to show you here is that even if you are not a coder, with a bit of html and some brain, you can make some neat stuffs. Please get inspired from my crappy code and make your own sauce.

Download popup generator – javascript.zip

Look at the files and the explanation, the whole trick is to make your homepage execute the popup generator when the user navigates away (done easily in javascript). The popup generator will use a Javascript “timeout” to open a browser window every 20 min. (you can configure it in the code). The browser window will display an ad page. I could have done it in php, but I did it in javascript in case you want to be able to test it on a non-php server.
Because I actually advise that you install this popup generator on another server (maybe a free homepage), so your google search homepage will execute it, but when someone catches it, he will not know easily it was started by your main homepage.

Don’t be afraid if you implement this idea, you will see (if you look at your stats) that when you begin to do this, you will get a lot of people who will remove your homepage from their default setting, so you will have a big loss in your adsense earning. what happened to me is that after a few weeks, I reached a point where this loss stopped, and my number of homepage installed started to increase again. Then the affiliate earnings started to increase as well and the potential loss of adsense/google search money was very acceptable compared to the new extra affiliate income.

Even in the unlikely case where google would ban your homepage that would just mean your homepage would not be in their search results… So what? all the traffic is coming from the users having the homepage as default in their browsers!!!

I started to think about going further with this techniques, and I thought of a crazy yet interesting idea. I didn’t implement the “darker” solution I am going to explain, so be aware that if you ever do it, it is at your own risks!

Keep the same principle, a popup generator, but instead of doing it in html from your homepage, write it in an advanced language (C++, java, perl, whatever). So here you need more advanced programming skills, yet it is not as tough as you would imagine, and if you know a bit of coding, you might make some nice extra bucks just spending a day writing such a program..

So first, go and subscribe as an affiliate to sell their products. Get all the affiliate URLs and put them in a text file.
You are going now to write a little program that will display one of the ads from your list every hour. We will call this program an ads-rotator.
You will register this program so it starts everytime Windows starts.
[would you like me to put such a program on the website for you to download?]
What would be easy at this point is to have your screensaver setup installing this little program, but if you do that, people will quickly find that installing your screensavers brought them problems, and you might get flagged as adware or worse, virus.
That’s why you will have to be sneaky on this, and you will rely on the natural instincts of people -> which are bad by nature!

I don’t know which screensaver maker software you are using, but you need to use one which allows you to create a shareware screensaver. The screensaver is limited and the user needs to pay for a licence code to unlock it and have the full version.

You will rely then on temptation. What you have to do is to create a program which is a fake keygen. A keygen is a small program that generate a registration number for a specific software. Keygens are made available by software cracking groups for free download on various websites dedicated to software piracy. Usually it is a simple program that ask you a name, and generate the key from it. Then you can enter the name and key in the software to unlock it and get the full version.
I said make a fake keygen, because you don’t care of giving the user a working code, you want that your keygen will install quietly your ads-rotator. This keygen can generate a random key, the user will think it was a non working keygen, it happens all the times, but by using it, he will have your ads-rotator installed.
[would you like me to put such a program on the website for you to download?]

Why is it temptation? Because you give to the user a possibility to break the law and get something for free whereas he should pay for it, so if he’s not honest, he will use the keygen and get your ads-rotator, and at some point he will have to click on some of your ads. This is why an affiliate program for an antivirus or a spyware-cleaner is perfect.
How is he going then to find your keygen ? One solution would be to buy a domain name like “www.crack-serial-keygen-screensavers.com”, put your keygen(s) on it, make some download page with enough explicit reference to your screensaver (add your website name, your screensaver name and some keywords like : crack, serial, keygen). Have your fake cracks website indexed, and wait. If someone looks for a crack of your screensaver, he will find it there.
Still this solution will not generate a lot of money because most people will probably not search for a crack of your screensaver.

So let’s go one step further in the tempation.
In the final stage of the setup of your screensaver, you will open a URL of your screensavers site, but not displaying html. You want to make it look like it was a mistake, a part of your site the user should have never seen :

You can see here there are 3 important elements:
1 – your keygen, that the guy can freely download.
2 – a README text file, that should have a girl name in it to increase the curiosity.
3 – an order page, with its jpg elements. if you click on it, it will be a genuine order page.

Download the backdoor files – backdoor.zip

Inside of the readme file, you will write some text like:

Jessica Please read this.txt

Jessica,
please can you have a look at the keygen I have found on the website I told you?
I think it can generate some unlocking code for some of our screensavers, but I need to be sure.
If it does, please contact david so he can change the registration codes, please put me in Cc of emails.

Can you also update the index.html page? You need to apply the new css stylesheet.
Please edit the html and upload the file with the FTP program to our website (if you forgot how to use it, ask to David), and send me a screenshot!

Thanks,
Richard

Ok, I guess you start to guess where I am going.
What will happen to the guy who just installed your screensaver? He will see a page that looks like a backdoor. If he reads the text file, he will think that some woman screwed up and put a keygen on the website. Guess what will happen next?

By the way, be sure that your order page can be used to actually make an order, you are never sure, some people might be honest and try to pay you for a licence code!

Ok then, at this point, the dishonest guy will install your fake keygen, it will not work, he will think “Bummer”, then next time he starts windows, he will see ads appearing… What is he going to do? Complain that he used an illegal keygen and got those ads?

So you see how you can play with people instincs to make them do what you want.
When you want to create a story, start by the end, then go backward until the begin to know what sequences are needed for the whole story to happen (taken from a movie I just saw “The lookout”). Anyway that is what you should always do with any of your project.

So good luck with those techniques and I hope you got some inspiration!

I never used Zango, instead I tried my own “recipes” to make cash out of those screensavers.

- Other Pay-per-install
I tried another pay-per-install program called Rasermedia. I have to say that the guys were pretty cool, but quite demanding. They give you their program to install (as an exe or a dll) and they ask you to get it installed at least 20 times a day. The payout is not very good ($0.10 per install) but the biggest problem is that their program got flagged as a virus (even with my free antivirus!) just after a few weeks. This means that everytime somebody installed one of my screensavers, Rasermedia’s program got detected by the antivirus! With more than 200 screensavers installs per day, I quickly fell under the 20 rasermedia installs per day and then my account got deactivated. Everything happened within a month… I never got paid! I don’t hold anything against them though. I understood that their routine is to create an exe, have it installed as much as possible and as quickly as possible, then after a few weeks, their exe get detected as a virus and they have to create another one. Which means that you need to have a very high daily number of installs if you want to make good money out of it. And you will need to re-create your setup file every month or so, and re-submit it so the update is detected by shareware repositories… So I don’t think it is feasible. I bet that promoting Rasermedia would be good if done an automated way, but definitely not with screensavers.

- Install a Personalized Google Homepage
By changing some value in the Windows Registry, you can set the Internet Explorer default homepage to the URL you want.
So the idea is to login to your Adsense account, create a personalized Search Box, and include it on a page on your server, and set the user’s default homepage to your “Search” page. This way the user will have your own Google search on his default homepage, and everytime he will do a search with it, if he clicks on ads, you will get part of the revenue. This method is easy but be careful, in order to avoid legal problems, during the setup you should clearly indicates to the user that he is going to have his default homepage changed. He must also have the option to refuse it.
This method works, but will not bring you a lot of money. Obviously, most users will change their homepage back to something else, but the good point is that the ones who will not do it will probably use it for months (Until their Windows needs to be reinstalled ).
From experience, it is way much better not to design your search page in a too complicated manner. Put your logo, the Google Search box, and a few links to some affiliates for a bit of extra cash. Fon’t try to imitate iGoogle or Yahoo homepages: Trying to make something difficult will not bring you more money, it will just take you more time.

- Open a page full of ads at the end of the screensaver’s install.
That is easy, and you should do it. Put as much ads as you can was my tactic, and make it as ugly as possible so the user will want to navigate away from the page quickly, by clicking on some ads. You might laugh but it does work. I even used the page to put some banners for my other websites! A little free advertising is never bad!

- White-Hat monetization strategy
I didn’t do it, but if I had some whitehat website, I would create a few relevant screensavers, and host them on my whitehat website.
Add an opening page at the end of the install (as described just before), not displaying ads, but redirecting to you website. Maybe going to a well-crafted landing page to make the user feel like discovering more of your website. That’s also an easy way to build some links, as when you will submit your screensaver to software repositories, you will get free backlinks from them.
You can even use your screensavers to create further promotion. Let’s say you have a website about trading stocks. You take Excel, and make nice charts for each of the stock market indices : Dow jones, NASDAQ, MSCI, etc. Then you take screenshots of them and create a screensaver. You put it on your website, and go to Digg and write a news : “Forget about screensavers of Paris Hilton, the traders have their screensaver of stock market indices”, which links to your website. That’s it, free, catchy and non-spammy advertising for your website!

- Grey-Hat monetization strategy
Use the method of changing the user’s default homepage to your grey-hat website, and make money out of it. I don’t advise you do it for a pure black-hat website, because if a user has to see a black-hat spammy homepage everytime he opens internet Explorer, you can bet he is going to find a way to change it. If you offer him some white hat, it will not be spammy, but changing somebody’s homepage is disputable (even if Google themselves do it), so it might hurt your website reputation. This is why my choice would be to create some non-spammy yet automatically-created website, and force the use to have it as his homepage.
But why would you create some grey-hat website? That’s part of the 40,000 pageviews per month strategy to quit your job. I explain there why you should have some automatic method to generate visitors traffic. You could use some Black-hat method to do it but you will then get your websites dropped quickly and have to create new ones everytime. If you can create some grey-hat website, which are not spammy enough to get dropped, you will add the visitors pageviews, and remember, the more your screensavers get installed, the more visitors you get, and these visitors will add up to eventually reach this 40,000 figure!

- My own Black-Hat monetization strategy
This one is really disputable, yet surprisingly, it is the one that works quite well for me. I give you all the details in the post The shameless path to the dark side of money.